Tagged: silence

Life Denied, Unmerited Gifts, and Silence

Offered first for your perusal is a short documentary about the effects of the legalization of so-called physician assisted suicide entitled Compassion and Choice DENIED. Written and directed by Jennifer Lahl and posted on...

Silence and Wisdom

In today’s constantly connected, overly informed world of smartphones, touchscreens, and WIFI, silence can be extraordinarily elusive. What’s more, many find it uncomfortable or even anxiety provoking. But without silence there can be neither...

Reading Time

The Catholic Thing presents a thoughtful article, On Reading Fiction, which exhorts the youth, in particular, to put down the mobile phone and pick up a book.  Something which modern man strives to acquire...

For We are Cleansed by Prayer

St. Casimir A Childlike Encounter with God:  Writing for NLM, Peter Kwasniewski outlines a method for implementing the practice of lectio divina,otherwise known as praying with the Scriptures, during Lent and hopefully beyond. “Fr.”...

Do Penance or Perish

From the May 1999 issue of The Angelus, we have a reprint of an article on the spirituality of Padre Pio which includes some powerful quotes from him on the New Mass and the...